The IRS will return $344,000 in legal earnings that agents seized from a prominent Iowa neurologist over the way he withdrew his own money.The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Iowa dismissed a civil forfeiture case last week involving Mason City doctor Alireza Yarahmadi.The IRS seized $344,405 from Yarahmadi's bank account last year after suspecting he made repeated cash withdrawals in increments below $10,000 to evade federal reporting requirements.Yarahmadi denied wrongdoing, saying he routinely transferred cash from his bank account to safe deposit boxes for safekeeping.His attorney, Gail Brashers-Krug, says prosecutors made "a very honorable and professional choice" to drop the case. She says Yarahmadi is an Iran native who is suspicious of banks because his family lost its savings after the 1979 revolution.

MASON CITY, Iowa —

The IRS will return $344,000 in legal earnings that agents seized from a prominent Iowa neurologist over the way he withdrew his own money.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Iowa dismissed a civil forfeiture case last week involving Mason City doctor Alireza Yarahmadi.

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The IRS seized $344,405 from Yarahmadi's bank account last year after suspecting he made repeated cash withdrawals in increments below $10,000 to evade federal reporting requirements.

His attorney, Gail Brashers-Krug, says prosecutors made "a very honorable and professional choice" to drop the case. She says Yarahmadi is an Iran native who is suspicious of banks because his family lost its savings after the 1979 revolution.